Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your own well-roofed houses, while this temple lies in ruins?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3Then this message from the Lord came to Haggai the prophet:
5The Lord of hosts says: Consider your past experiences.
Cross References
Psalms 102:14For even her stones are dear to your servants, even the dust of her ruins they look on with love.
Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12
Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →